That was a busy weekend. Apart from a bit of Christmas shopping, we had the Deepdene Nursery edit to finish and then on Friday we had to film the Pre-Prep classes performing their annual nativity play. Because we always try to produce the DVDs before the school breaks up, it was straight back to the studio to start the edit on this one.
Saturday and we were off to Weybridge to film Lizzie and Stephens wedding. Although it was a grey day, the rain held off while the guests arrived at the church. It started to rain just as the ceremony started, but luckily had stopped enough when everyone came out. Harry the photographer managed to get the groups, although Lizzie was starting to feel the cold by the end of the photo session!
The reception was at Burhill Golf Club, which looked seasonal with illuminated Christmas trees outside. The guests were welcomed with mince pies. The weather got worse, with a steady downpour, but everyone was inside in the dry and warm.
We got some good footage and start on the edit this week. At least this week won’t be quite as hectic.
As it’s Christmas we have uploaded the highlights of the Deepdene Nativity Play. Enjoy!
Must be nearly Christmas already! This morning we filmed the Deepdene School Nursery Nativity Play. We’ve been filming this for the last five years.
We do two plays for the school; the Nursery classes and the Pre-Prep classes. We’ll be filming the Pre-Prep play on Friday. The youngsters in the nursery play are great. They really don’t know what’s going on and they don’t have the inhibitions that we all acquire as we get older. So during the play they are pulling faces, waving to the audience and generally doing their own thing.
Anyway, it all went without a hitch, with a lot of help, and encouragement from the Deepdene staff. The parents loved it. We have already started on the edit as we have to turn around both plays before the end of next week. It’s a bit of a rush, but we always get there.
We received the following email from Nikki’s father this morning.
I’m sorry it’s taken us so long to get around to writing to you after Nikki and James’ wedding on 2nd October 2009 which you video’d for us all. We cannot praise you enough for the quality of the video, in all its aspects (including capturing the “fly past” by the RAF). That you managed to catch all of the family, the kids and the bride never stopping smiling would have been great enough, but to capture the speeches (well, the Best man’s) so well and then all of the main parts was also exactly what we had hoped for and then you set it to an outstanding sound track.
The video is everything we could have hoped for, and more, and provides us with wonderful memories of a wonderful day.
